The increase would cost the owner of a typical $200,000 home an additional $21.57 extra a year.

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This isn’t exactly the breakfast of champions.

A diner in the English seaside town of Norfolk is busting British bellies with something called the “Kidz Breakfast,” which weighs nine pounds and includes a dozen sausages, eggs and huge hunks of Canadian bacon, along with a pile of potatoes.

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This princess has finally gotten her slipper back.

The footwear of Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister, Princess Pauline Borghese, for 140 years had been sitting, totally forgotten, deep in the bowels of a museum in Scotland.

They were recently uncovered by researchers, although way too late to be slipped onto her feet and enabling her to live happily ever after.